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China's Government Is Banning Flush Car Door Handles

China will ban flush exterior car door handles from 2027 due to safety concerns including failure to open after accidents, affecting automakers like Tesla, Aion, and Xiaomi.

Summary by InsideHook
Not to state the obvious, but it should not be challenging to know how to get into a car, truck or SUV. For decades, the design of door handles made this very clear, with either a button to press or a handle to lift. But for some designers, that isn’t enough — and presumably, that’s how you get things like Tesla’s flush door handles, which have left numerous passengers trying to figure out why one automaker decided to reinvent a perfectly good (…

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InsideHook broke the news in on Friday, February 6, 2026.
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